vulnus

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/ˈvʌlnəs/

noun

A wound.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounvulnus (plural vulnera)

plural vulnera

  1. formalmedicineA wound.

    But for the veterans in the Pannonian legions, their vulnera were no longer their tokens of honour, but an indication of the severity of service in the army.

    1999, Acta classica, volumes 42-43, page 89
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    I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound.

    1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinvulnus
  2. Latinvulnus
  3. Englishvulnus

Borrowed from Latin vulnus.

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Chicago

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